"Islands are the epicenter of the current global extinction crisis and invasive vertebrates are the leading cause of extinction on islands. Removing invasive vertebrates from islands is a well-established tool to protect and restore island ecosystems...
In 2010 I started a demographic study of Southern Giant Petrels Macronectes giganteus on Gough Island in the south Atlantic ( click here ). Such a study is of interest as Gough is the most northerly breeding locality for this ACAP-listed species, with...
Sebastián Jiménez ( Proyecto Albatros y Petreles - Uruguay ) and colleagues, writing in the journal Aquatic Living Resources have assessed the risk to ACAP-listed albatrosses and petrels from the Uruguayan pelagic longline fleet. They conclude that the...
A personal challenge in 2012 has been to post a daily news item to ACAP Latest News . This story is the 365th of the year so the self-imposed daily streak* has been achieved. Now is a good time then to look back at the highlights of a years' worth of...
Pearson, Bruce 2012. Troubled Waters. Trailing the Albatross, an Artist’s Journey . Peterborough: Langford Press. 136 pp. 109 illustrations, mainly watercolours and pencil sketches, hardback. ISBN 978-1-904078-48-7. UK£38. www.langford-press.co.uk....
Inaccessible Island from the east, with Harold's Plain in the foreground, the lowest area on the island's plateau. The island is named more for its sheer cliffs around much of the coast rather than for the difficulty of landing. Inaccessible and its...
A pelagic longliner operating in international waters in the south-west Atlantic pulled aboard a drowned albatross wearing a colour band on 4 October 2011 at 33.24S, 47.09W. Because the colour band was handed in to Proyecto Albatros y Petreles in...
Photograph by John Cooper from S.A. Agulhas , October 2011 Nightingale is part of the United Kingdom’s Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic. In front can be seen the islets of Middle and Stoltenhoff . A...
BirdLife South Africa ( BLSA ) held its Annual General Meeting (“Flock at Sea”) this month at sea for the first time. Sailing from Cape Town in the 58 000-tonne cruise ship MS MSC Opera , 1116 bird watchers travelled to Walvis Bay in Namibia and back...
Gough Island lies approximately 400 km south-east of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic Ocean and is part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha. Within its rugged 65 km 2 , this nature reserve,...
A complete-island count of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena was completed during February/March 2013 on the United Kingdom’s Gough Island, part of the Tristan da Cunha group in the South Atlantic. As is now well known...
Chicks of the Critically Endangered Tristan Albatross Diomedea dabbenena on Gough Island in the South Atlantic have been subjected to attacks by introduced House Mice Mus musculus every winter since at least 2000 when the first observations of wounded...
The Seventh Meeting of the Albatross and Petrel Agreement’s Advisory Committee, to be held in La Rochelle this month, will hear of progress with ACAP-funded projects for the 2010-2011 and 2012 rounds (see AC7 Inf 01 ). 2010-2011 FUNDING ROUND Eight...
Richard Cuthbert ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , UK) and colleagues have written in the journal Bird Conservation International on the plight of a suite of burrowing petrels on Gough Island in the South Atlantic thought due to the...
Richard Cuthbert ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ) and colleagues have published in the journal Antarctic Science of yet more harm being caused by predatory House Mice Mus musculus on Gough Island – this time reporting attacks on a further...
The main island of Tristan da Cunha. Photograph by Alison Rothwell The Tristan Archipelago lies in the central South Atlantic approximately 2700 km west of South Africa. It forms part of the United Kingdom Overseas Territory of St Helena, Ascension and...
Qual Albatroz is a twice-monthly comic strip about a somewhat unusual colony of albatrosses lost somewhere in the south Pacific. The cartoons are drawn by Marc Parchow Figueiredo – who has never seen an albatross although he much wishes to do so. Marc...
Richard Cuthbert ( Royal Society for the Protection of Birds , UK) and colleagues, writing in the journal Antarctic Science , report on breeding success and population trends of four ACAP-listed species breeding on Gough Island in the South Atlantic....
Applications are sought for research and project funding that will assist the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels (ACAP) meet its objective of achieving and maintaining a favourable conservation status for albatrosses and petrels....
The annual relief of the South African weather station on Gough Island in the South Atlantic starts tomorrow with the Antarctic research and supply ship the m.v. S.A. Agulhas II departing Cape Town on Thursday the 5th. Gough forms part of the United...
